UTC Project Information
Project Title
Region V Transportation Workforce Assessment and Summit
University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Principal Investigator
Dr. Teresa Adams
PI Contact Information
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: adams@engr.wisc.edu
$80,000: NEXTRANS Center/USDOT
Funding Source(s) and
Amounts Provided (by each
agency or organization)
$80,000: cs
Total Project Cost
$160,000
Agency ID or Contract
Number
DTRT12-G-UTC05
Start and End Dates
01/01/2015
Brief Description of
Research Project
Nationwide, as the Baby Boom generation moves to retirement, the
transportation workforce will lose many well-trained and experienced people.
Furthermore the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed in the remaining and
new transportation workers will be much broader, reflecting changes in
technologies, processes and the expectations of the public. At the same time
these challenges are unfolding, the demographics of our region and the nation
are also undergoing change. The future workforce will be made up more
heavily of members of minority groups that traditionally have had much lower
rates of educational attainment and of non-traditional workers seeking second
careers or more flexible working environments. In April of 2012, a number of
national agencies and groups came together to hold a National Transportation
Workforce Summit. The product of the summit was fourteen specific
recommendations for actions on the part of educators, transportation agencies
and employers. Those recommendations can be found in the National
Transportation Workforce Summit Reportout.
The purpose of this project is to lay the groundwork for addressing the
transportation workforce challenges in the region either by taking steps toward
implementing the national recommendations regionally or by identifying the
challenges and developing the solutions that may be unique to this region.
This project involves two phases – Phase I is a regional assessment of the
transportation workforce demand and supply. Phase II is a summit of
transportation workforce stakeholders within the region.
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